Tidbits on September 12 2019
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
Set 8 of the Historic Photographs of the Sunset
Hill House Resort Shared by Ron Resden
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Resden/2019/08ResdenSSH.htm
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Animated Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth
Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010) ---
A Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years
(1790 – 2010)
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
In September 2017 the USA National Debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time
---
http://www.statedatalab.org/news/detail/national-debt-surpasses-20-trillion-for-the-first-time-in-us-history
Human Population Over Time on Earth ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE
Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
Serendipity, Tactility, and Community: Library Research as
Practice of Wonder ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j7DMXEXHBo
The Rise and Fall of the Headphone Jack ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7davoSDgSHw
The Sunset Hill House Hotel (near our cottage)
---
https://www.thesunsethillhouse.com/
Watch the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cqUX0LcbU&t=9s
Free music downloads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
In the past I've provided links to various types of music and video available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Watch an Archaeologist Play the “Lithophone,” a Prehistoric
Instrument That Let Ancient Musicians Play Real Classic Rock ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/09/watch-an-archaeologist-play-the-lithophone.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Irish Traditional Music --- https://jborden.com/2019/09/02/music-monday-the-irish-traditional-music-session/
Céline Dion is Everywhere ---
https://thewalrus.ca/celine-dion-is-everywhere/?cid=db&source=ams&sourceId=296279
For free listening search for her on YouTube ---
https://www.youtube.com/
Bob Jensen's Links to Free Music
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
The Scandalous Painting That Helped Create Modern Art: An
Introduction to Édouard Manet’s Olympia ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/the-scandalous-painting-that-helped-create-modern-art.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
BBC Travel: National Parks --- www.bbc.com/travel/national-parks
Children & Nature Network --- www.childrenandnature.org
Parklandia --- www.parklandiapodcast.com
The 10 best scenic train rides you can take in the US this fall ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/10-best-train-rides-can-take-in-us-this-fall-2019-9
Journey North --- https://journeynorth.org/
John Muir Laws: Nature Journaling Curriculum --- https://johnmuirlaws.com/journaling-curriculum/
Peaks and Valleys: A 3-D tour of our planet's highest and lowest spots ---
http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2017/peaks-and-valleys/index.html
For less than $100, you can tour the abandoned towns around
Chernobyl. Just watch out for radioactive trees and dogs, crumbling buildings,
and the occasional selfie stick ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-exclusion-zone-tourism-photos-2019-8
Eerie photo captures the eye of Hurricane Dorian, one of the
most powerful Atlantic storms in history ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-dorian-video-eye-storm-heading-us-2019-9
Also see
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/3/20847314/hurricane-dorian-satellite-space-station-photos-iss?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_BshMDI9cMgxtFjOduakD2Mp0RLc05w3-7FDjJHTKmOSCGJ7d6XaMWuYLayzLZ_JIxOLUKmTUZmeViNrHtZnNkqnfPlg&_hsmi=76422523
Aftermath
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/9/4/20847941/hurricane-dorian-photos-bahamas-grand-bahama-abaco
Yale Presents an Archive of 170,000 Photographs Documenting the
Great Depression ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/09/yale-presents-an-archive-of-170000-photographs-documenting-the-great-depression.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bob Jensen's threads on art history ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory
Bob Jensen's threads on history, literature and art ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various
types electronic literature available free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on libraries --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries
Wikisource Free Literature --- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
The Black Man's Lament by Amelia Opie --- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Black_Man%27s_Lament
Thoreau's Flute by Louisa May Alcott -- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thoreau%27s_Flute
Precaution by James Fenimore Cooper --- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Precaution
Myths and Legends --- www.mythpodcast.com
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
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Political Quotations on September 12, 2019
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2019/TidbitsQuotations091219.htm
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the booked
obligation of $19+ trillion) ---
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2016/05/25/spring-2016-to-whom-does-the-us-government-owe-money-n2168161?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
The US Debt Clock in Real Time ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Remember the Jane Fonda Movie called "Rollover" ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_(film)
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the
unbooked obligation of $100 trillion and unknown more in contracted
entitlements) ---
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/15/news/economy/entitlement-benefits/
The biggest worry of the entitlements obligations is enormous obligation for the
future under the Medicare and Medicaid programs that are now deemed totally
unsustainable ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget.
Entitlement spending has grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all
American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics
like that, most of us shake our heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s
because nobody thinks they’re the problem. Nobody ever wants to think they’re
the problem. But that’s not the truth. The truth is, as long as we continue to
think of the rising entitlement culture in America as someone else’s problem,
someone else’s fault, we’ll never truly understand it and we’ll have absolutely
zero chance...
Steve Tobak ---
http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2013/02/07/truth-behind-our-entitlement-culture/?intcmp=sem_outloud
"These Slides Show Why We Have Such A Huge Budget Deficit And Why Taxes
Need To Go Up," by Rob Wile, Business Insider, April 27, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cbo-presentation-on-the-federal-budget-2013-4
This is a slide show based on a presentation by a Harvard Economics Professor.
Peter G. Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Bob Jensen's health care messaging updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
Coursera ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera
The MOOCs are free, but Courseara gives examinations that allow for transcript
credits and certificates for an added fee.
13 popular online courses (some with millions of students) that people
enroll in and actually finish, according to Coursera ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/coursera-popular-courses-with-high-completion-rates
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are Free Online Courses from Prestigious
Universities ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
Be prepared that learning from intense MOOCs entails time and intense work
These are not a casual walks in the park of knowledge (a
friend says MOOCs are like drinking from a fire hose)
Thousands (3,700+) of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started
in September: Enroll Today ---
http://www.openculture.com/free_certificate_courses
Discover Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from great universities. Most offer "certificates" or "statements of completion," though typically not university credit. A "$" indicates that the course is free, but the credential costs money. (See the key below to understand the credentials offered by each course, and see our MOOC FAQ if you have general questions.) Courses are arranged by start date, while evergreen courses, which can begin whenever you wish, are found at the bottom.Free Courses Credential Key
CC = Certificate of Completion
CA = Certificate of Accomplishment
HCC - Honor Code Certificate
VC$ = Verified Certificate
VCA$ = Verified Certificate of Accomplishment
SA = Statement of Accomplishment
SP$ = Statement of Participation
CM = Certificate of Mastery
NI - No Information About Certificate Available
NC = No Certificate
Bob Jensen's threads on MOOCs and other free online learning adventures from
top universities ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Statement Against Student Evaluations for Promotion and Tenure Decisions
(American Sociological Association) ---
https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/asa_statement_on_student_evaluations_of_teaching_sept52019.pdf
Jensen Comment
They fail to mention my main objection student evaluations --- the disgrace of
grade inflation bringing the median grades up to A- across the USA ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
The Atlantic: Has College Gotten Too Easy? Time spent studying is down, but GPAs are up --
-Jensen Comment
In eight decades the median grade across the USA went from C+ to A- (with
variations of course) and efforts in such places as Princeton and Cornell to
limit the proportion of A grades were ended and deemed as failures.
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
Now we ask: Has college gotten to easy. I guess you know what I think.
Higher education has become Lake Wobegon where (almost) all students are above average in terms of what used to be average.
A study says smooth-talking professors can lull students into thinking
they've learned more than they actually have -- potentially at the expense of
active learning.---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/09/09/study-how-smooth-talking-professors-can-lull-students-thinking-theyve-learned-more?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=f6c035d588-DNU_2019_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-f6c035d588-197565045&mc_cid=f6c035d588&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Active Learning Works But Student’s Don’t Like It ---
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/09/03/1821936116
Bob Jensen's threads on tools that can improve both lecture and active
learning ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Metacognitive Concerns in
Designs and Evaluations of Computer Aided Education and Training:
Are We Misleading Ourselves About Measures of Success?
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm#UpdateMessages
14 of the Weirdest Things You Can Buy on Amazon ---
https://www.reviewgeek.com/21980/14-things-you-didnt-know-they-sold-on-amazon/
Far too often, researchers’ scholarly and creative achievements simply
become lines on curriculum vitae, argue Scott Slovic and Janet E. Nelson, who
offer recommendations for validating faculty research
---
https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/09/04/academic-administrators-must-do-more-highlight-researchers’-scholarly-and-creative?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=64813187b5-WNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-64813187b5-197565045&mc_cid=64813187b5&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Just when we thought colleges could not spout
loonier ideas, we have a new one from American University. They hired a
professor to teach other professors to grade students based on their "labor"
rather than their writing ability.
Academic Stupidity And Brainwashing
Walter E. Williams ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_E._Williams
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2019/09/11/academic-stupidity-and-brainwashing-n2552817?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=09/11/2019&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935
The Biggest Scandal in Higher Education
On the other hand, that professor who
challenges the student because he or she wants that student to be
stronger than he or she now is sends a powerful message of respect
to the student. (Why am I even writing such a comment? Isn't this
obvious? Unfortunately, no. I write this because I have seen far too
many people in charge of universities -- professors, people on
staff, administrators -- who could not wrap their minds around this
simple concept. Such a stance seemed "tough" to them, not "nice."
Such a stance seemed "unfriendly," not "sweet and welcoming." Let's
face it: such a stance is no come-on to the weakest prospective
students who might well be lured to a university by every appeal
that makes the place sound like a resort instead of a boot camp.)
The professor who believes in challenging the student says this: you
are not nothing, and, beyond that, you can achieve so much more than
you already have. You may someday thank me for these challenges I
present to you along with my willingness to work to help you succeed
in your own right. I know from experience that some students will
appreciate that work in the moment, some a decade or two later; some
may never appreciate it. But a student's appreciation of the teacher
has never been the real issue anyway, nor is it the mark of
authentic teaching.
Doyle Wesley Walls,
"How Will You Go to College?" The Irascible Professor,
October 25, 2008 ---
http://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-10-25-08.htm
Bob Jensen's commentary on how teaching evaluations cause grade
inflation (the biggest scandal in higher
education) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#GradeInflation
Message to America's
Higher Education Faculty
You are the reason the colleges are
proud of what they do and your accomplishments represent the
performance that colleges and universities point to in developing
and justifying their reputation. Reputations are not developed in a
vacuum. You, your parents, your children, your colleagues and your
peers are the living remnants of the college experience. Your
success justifies the massive resources poured by private Americans
into supporting colleges and universities. And your success
validates the vocation that characterizes the role of so many
faculty members. There is something special about American higher
education, which continues to produce some of the world’s greatest
scientists and engineers, thinkers and scholars. There is something
unique in the education we offer, which provides a breadth, an
intellectual depth to accompany the skills and aptitudes of the
specialist. And there are the human successes in sectors whose
mission is to produce an involved, thinking efficiency... Not
everyone agrees that American higher education is characterized by
success. Numbers are quoted indicating that the quality of graduates
is not what it used to be. But they forget that sometimes the
numbers go down as the numbers go up. As American higher education
welcomes people less prepared, less gifted and often less motivated,
as the atmosphere at some colleges becomes less rarified by the
proliferation of remedial education, the average accomplishment will
go down.
Bernard Fryshman, "Grasping the Reins of Reality," Inside Higher
Ed, August 16, 2006 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/08/16/fryshman
The New Yorker: What Statistics Can't Tell Us About Ourselves ---
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/what-statistics-can-and-cant-tell-us-about-ourselves
Thank you Denny Beresford for the heads up!
Over 400 Examples of Critical Thinking and Illustrations of How to Mislead
With Statistics ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.htm
If the end brings me out all right, what is said
against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels
swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln on How to Handle Criticism ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/27/abraham-lincoln-criticism/?mc_cid=855d203b71&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
Skepticism 101 --- http://www.skeptic.com/skepticism-101
**How to Mislead With Statistics (spurious
correlations) ---
https://reason.com/archives/2015/12/04/did-california-prop-47-cause-state-crime
Unprofessional
Journalism: The Mueller Report ---
https://twitter.com/moorehn/status/1154558852043591681
How to Mislead With Statistics
Anaesthetist John Carlisle has spotted problems in hundreds of research papers —
and spurred a leading medical journal to change its practice ---
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02241-z
Why History Gets Stuff Wrong All the Time ---
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/07/why-history-get-stuff-wrong-all-the-time/
Stanford University: Civic Online Reasoning --- https://irlpodcast.org/
Climate Alarmists (think NASA) Caught Manipulating Temperature Data Yet Again ---
How Fact Checkers Mislead With Statistics
Ilhan Omar Defended by Media and Fact Checkers ---
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2019/07/31/ilhan-omar-defended-by-media-and-fact-checkers-n2550908?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=07/31/2019&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167
How to Mislead With Statistics
TripAdvisor, Hajj
Ratings or Ummah.com
Jensen Comment
In
Lake
Wobegon criticizing can get you killed.
How to Mislead With Statistics
Here are the best colleges in America according to U.S. News & World
Report for 2019 ---
https://www.10news.com/news/national/here-are-the-best-colleges-in-america-according-to-u-s-news-world-report
Jensen Comment
What I have to say about best college rankings is ditto what I have to say below
about hardest colleges to get into. In mathematics we say that those many-to-one
transformations can be terribly misleading.
Hardest Colleges to Get Into in the USA
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/09/06/hardest-colleges-to-get-into/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter&utm_content=SEP102019a
Jensen Comment
I don't dispute the that the rankings are somewhat meaningful. What I dispute is
the ignoring of some of the criteria used for admissions --- often unique
combinations of criteria.
Admission to a prestigious university is a multivariate combination of factors, and it's misleading to rank universities on a superficial subset of the variables evaluated in the admissions process.
The first thing to do is to totally ignore the "acceptance ratio" criterion. It costs money to apply to these universities. And most students across the USA don't waste their time and money applying to colleges where they have little or no chance of gaining acceptance. Hence, the denominator of an "acceptance ratio" for Cal Tech or Harvard is misleading from get go due to self selection of what schools a student tries to get into. The denominator may have much more meaning for applicants to the Rank 50 university than to the Rank 1 university.
The second thing to do is to recognize that almost all (although not all)
applicants to schools like Cal Tech and Harvard have very high SAT scores plus
4.0 grade averages from their high schools. Cal Tech and Harvard need some other
criteria to pick the best from the best. And often those criteria are somewhat
unique and can't be easily compared. Purportedly, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School's David Hogg was did not have a stellar SAT score, but he was admitted to
Harvard for some other criteria not comparable with most other applicants ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hogg_(activist)
Many students are admitted to a prestigious university because of unique life
experiences that are both interesting and unlike experiences of other
applicants.
Those life experiences can't be quantifies in a ranking such as the one above.
What's interesting to me is the unique qualifications of students who are admitted to prestigious universities barely after reaching puberty (think 14 years old). What makes them so worthy of admission at such a young age.
A related question that I will probably never see answered is whether its more common to flunk out of Cal Tech than Harvard among students that are really trying to graduate and have no severe mental health issues. My priors are that Harvard can be pretty easy once you're admitted, although there are exceptions for certain disciplines that weaker students typically avoid.
One of my former girlfriends from decades ago was called to her chemistry professor's office. He promised to give her a C in introductory physical chemistry if she promised to change her major out of chemistry. She eventually graduated in nursing.
Science Alert, Some of The World's Most-Cited Scientists Have a Secret
That's Just Been Exposed:---
https://www.sciencealert.com/some-of-the-world-s-most-cited-scientists-have-a-secret-that-s-just-been-exposed
Jensen Comment
Surely our accountics scientists are too honorable to play that game. But if
accounting practitioners and business employees aren't reading those
highly-cited academic accounting articles how why are their citations soaring?
WSJ: Did the Obama administration commit the ‘biggest accounting
fraud in history' with student loans? Experts weigh in ---
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-administration-student-loans-experts-113140861.html
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board (WSJ) recently suggested that the Obama administration pulled off “the biggest accounting fraud in history” with student loans when eliminating the role of private lenders in the federal student lending market.
Experts who spoke with Yahoo Finance acknowledged the issue with the general policy in hindsight, though they disagreed on who exactly is to blame.
In 2010, Democrats “nationalized the market to help pay for Obama Care,” WSJ asserted. “The Congressional Budget Office at the time forecast that eliminating private lenders would save taxpayers $58 billion over 10 years. This estimate was pure fantasy, and now we’re seeing how much.”
The WSJ op-ed also highlighted the rising number of severely delinquent student loans since then and blamed the Obama administration for expanding plans in 2012 for new borrowers “to reduce defaults, buy off millennial voters and disguise the cost of its student-loan takeover.”
The editorial board then added: “This may be the biggest accounting fraud in history.”
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‘There’s no way around that’
WSJ argued that eliminating private lenders from the student loan market severely hurt Americans and that by using fair-market accounting, it becomes clear that student loans will actually cost taxpayers nearly $307 billion over the next 10 years.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) during the George W. Bush administration and currently president of the center-right American Action Forum, agreed that the accounting discrepancy manifested because of the “technique” used by the CBO to evaluate the cost of these loan programs.
“A widely known deficiency of the Federal Credit and Reform Act is that it does not allow the CBO to incorporate [market risk] into assessments," Holtz-Eakin told Yahoo Finance. “So the loans, when they're evaluated are evaluated as safer than they truly are, and thus, the losses are smaller than they may truly be. And there's no way around that — the techniques force you to do that.”
He added that “that's why when you when they switched from the private loans to the government loans, it appeared to save money... that is misleading. I don't disagree, but it's not the CBO's fault — those are the rules.”
Sheila Bair, the chair of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from 2006 to 2011, agreed that the WSJ was “right to call out the government” on the accounting issue and stressed that it is “a huge problem with federal budgeting and transparency generally.”
Income-based repayment plans were ‘poorly designed’
The WSJ argued that the key catalyst for the student debt crisis today — $1.48 trillion student loans outstanding, with 35% of the consumer loans in the “severely derogatory” category — was a result of the Obama administration’s policies regarding income-driven repayment (IDR) plans.
IDR plans allow borrowers to cap monthly student loan payments based on how much money they are making at a given time. As of September 2018, “almost half of the $898 billion in outstanding federal Direct Loans [were] being repaid by borrowers using IDR plans,” according to the Government Accountability Office.
Continued in article
Soaring Student Debt Opens Door to Relief Scams ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/soaring-student-debt-opens-door-to-relief-scams-11566826805
Alexa --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Alexa
MIT: Alexa will be your best friend when you’re older or otherwise
become more disabled ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614044/alexa-will-be-your-best-friend-when-youre-older/?utm_campaign=the_algorithm.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=76535820&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9jdiBfw6cE9Gji0Y1qjIJh-kctUFg2S1luSXz0BJh1Ye6LBNWPQn3uH0ALXP19eujwV1fzNdybcifQBSx8pWfooqVLmw&_hsmi=76535820
Bob Jensen's threads on technology aids for disabled and
learning-challenged people ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped
Getting on the Plastic Highway
Why Plastic Roads Lead to a Cleaner Ocean ---
https://daily.jstor.org/why-plastic-roads-lead-to-a-cleaner-ocean/
Getting on the Hydrogen Highway
Bloomberg, August 30, 2019 pp 11-12
https://www.scribd.com/article/423708967/Getting-On-The-Hydrogen-Highway
. . .
For now, though, the dirtier forms (fossil-fuel-powered) hydrogen production remain less than half as expensive as renewable (solar- and wind-powered) ones. That's a headache for Norway's government, which plans to halt sales of fossil-fuel-powered cars by 2025 and expects to have 500,000 hydrogen cars on the road in the country a few years later. At the very least, that would mean a lot more electrolyzers in places like Berlevag.
Jensen Comment
Norway is a small nation with 5+ million people and a Wealth Fund of over $1
trillion saved from oil and gas production profits. It can afford to generate
expensive hydrogen to for 500,000 cars. The USA is a large nation with 350+
million residents and over $22 trillion in booked debt. The USA cannot possibly
afford to produce enough expensive hydrogen cars to replace 270 million cars
within 10 years unless there are tremendous breakthroughs allowing for the
production of much cheaper hydrogen. However, over a longer horizon plentiful
hydrogen is a much better looking solution than relatively scarce lithium that
is highly polluting to produce for car batteries. The future of hydrogen fuel
cell energy looks much brighter than other forms of renewable energy at the
moment, although there are many developments taking place in nuclear, solar,
wind, and other renewable energy sources. Nations like Norway, China, Japan, and
Germany are betting on hydrogen --- most likely in fuel cells.
Preview: The hydrogen economy in China ---
https://www.gasworld.com/preview-the-hydrogen-economy-in-china/2017616.article
Germany Turns to Hydrogen in Quest for Clean Energy Economy --- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-02/germany-turns-to-hydrogen-in-quest-for-clean-energy-economy
How to Mislead With Mathematics
Marty Weitzman’s Noah’s Ark Problem ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/08/marty-weitzmans-noahs-ark-problem.html
Jensen Comment
The article raises its own concern about the analytics.
Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
You must watch this to the ending to appreciate it.
Mathematical Analytics in Plato's Cave
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm#Analytics
Can the 2008 investment banking failure be traced to a math error?
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street --- http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=all
Link forwarded by Jim Mahar ---
http://financeprofessorblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/recipe-for-disaster-formula-that-killed.html
Some highlights:
"For five years, Li's formula, known as a Gaussian copula function, looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before. With his brilliant spark of mathematical legerdemain, Li made it possible for traders to sell vast quantities of new securities, expanding financial markets to unimaginable levels.
His method was adopted by everybody from bond investors and Wall Street banks to ratings agencies and regulators. And it became so deeply entrenched—and was making people so much money—that warnings about its limitations were largely ignored.
Then the model fell apart." The article goes on to show that correlations are at the heart of the problem.
"The reason that ratings agencies and investors felt so safe with the triple-A tranches was that they believed there was no way hundreds of homeowners would all default on their loans at the same time. One person might lose his job, another might fall ill. But those are individual calamities that don't affect the mortgage pool much as a whole: Everybody else is still making their payments on time.
But not all calamities are individual, and tranching still hadn't solved all the problems of mortgage-pool risk. Some things, like falling house prices, affect a large number of people at once. If home values in your neighborhood decline and you lose some of your equity, there's a good chance your neighbors will lose theirs as well. If, as a result, you default on your mortgage, there's a higher probability they will default, too. That's called correlation—the degree to which one variable moves in line with another—and measuring it is an important part of determining how risky mortgage bonds are."
I would highly recommend reading the entire thing that gets much more involved with the actual formula etc.
The “math error”
might truly be have been an error or it might have simply been a gamble with
what was perceived as miniscule odds of total market failure. Something similar
happened in the case of the trillion-dollar disastrous 1993 collapse of Long
Term Capital Management formed by Nobel Prize winning economists and their
doctoral students who took similar gambles that ignored the “miniscule odds” of
world market collapse -- -
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#LTCM
“In China, bad research can be worth gold.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung explored
misconduct in China ---
https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/chinesische-forschung-wieso-so-oft-gefaelscht-wird-ld.1484509
Jensen Comment
I could not read this article, but I think the conclusion is not good for China
after Zürcher scoured the Retraction Watch
database of published paper retractions
In general I don't like "best" lists on most any topic because there are so many criteria for defining best. Unless the criterion or short list of criteria the list of "best" things may be more misleading than helpful.
Required reading: These are the books top professors at the best business
schools in the country are having their MBA students read ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/books-mba-professors-business-school-harvard-stanford-kellogg-recommend
Jensen Comment
No accounting books are mentioned in the above article even though accounting is
part and parcel to literally every MBA program in the world.
This begs the question of what accounting book would be
your first choice to add to the list of above books. What about naming one in
financial accounting and another in managerial accounting?
Here's one list ---
https://www.blog.consultants500.com/accounting-audit-advisory/top-15-accounting-books-recommended-most-times-by-business-owners-students-or-accounting-pros/
This points out a typical problem when recommending "best books." The problem is
that there are so many subtopics like accounting theory, elementary accounting,
accounting history, employee fraud, financial statement fraud, managerial
decisions, investment decisions, small business accounting, etc. Another problem
is that accounting interacts with so many other disciplines, especially
economics and finance. Here's a list that shows some of this interaction
https://www.wikiaccounting.com/10-best-accounting-books-recommended-by-readers/
The above article's list of "Required Reading" is weak on taxation even though taxation does appear in some of the recommended books. If you had to recommend a taxation book what book would you recommend?
The above article's list of "Required Reading is weak on accounting information systems, artificial intelligence, and internal controls. If you had to recommend an AIS book what book would you recommend?
We asked teachers for the one thing students do that drives them nuts —
and these are the 6 answers that kept coming up ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/teachers-reveal-infuriating-student-habits-lying-phones
Jensen Comment
Although partly and vaguely under the reply about "lying," I think plagiarizing
and otherwise cheating has to be the biggest thing that drives most teachers
nuts.
On the other side of the coin there are things teachers do that annoy students.
Here's one list ---
http://www.profkrg.com/10-things-professors-do-that-annoy-students
Unless its part of the intended pedagogy of making students learn on their own
being unprepared for class was one of the things that annoyed me most with some
of my professors. But it gives top students a chance to shine when they help a
teacher out in class. Yean I remember when this happened on occasion, especially
in math classes.
It takes some effort, but you can learn a lot about what irks students by
sorting through student replies on RateMyProfessors.com ---
https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/
You can search for targeted professors or you can randomly search for the lowest
rated professors and find out why they are rated low. Most commonly its unfair
grading, tough grading, playing favorites, or opinions that going to class is a
waste of time. There are some other eye-opining reasons given. Sometimes
highly-rated teachers do some things that annoy students. Read the 99 ratings of
Robert Jensen at the University of Texas.
Soaring Student Debt Opens Door to Relief Scams ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/soaring-student-debt-opens-door-to-relief-scams-11566826805
Most academics have lots of rejection stories. Far fewer have rejection
stories like Alison Gerber’s ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/26/sociologist-says-journal-rejected-her-paper-because-shes-shared-it-elsewhere
Jensen Comment
When an article of interest is available on outlets that distribute working
papers such as SSRN it's best to download it before it becomes unavailable after
it gets published --- of course there may be some important revisions in the
published versions
How banks are striking back against Quicken Loans and other digital-first
lenders in the $9 trillion US mortgage market ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-online-mortgage-lending-report-2019-7
Here are the highest-paid players at each position in the NFL---
https://www.businessinsider.com/highest-paid-nfl-players-at-each-position-2019-8
Jensen Comment
Not a Nobel Prize winner in the lot.
Apple launched a public beta of its music-streaming service on the web on
Thursday.
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-music-is-now-available-on-the-web-2019-9
The interface will allow subscribers to stream music directly from a browser
without having to install iTunes or the Apple Music app.
When Parents Unethically Help Their Children ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2019/09/09/unjustified-authorship-spikes-paper-by-daughter-of-south-korea-official/
When Spouses Unethically Help Each Other ---
Linebacker's Wife Says She Wrote His Papers (and took two online courses for
him)
The wife of a star University of South Florida linebacker
says she wrote his academic papers and took two online classes for him. The
accusations against Ben Moffitt, who had been promoted by the university to the
news media as a family man, were made in e-mail messages to The Tampa Tribune,
and followed Mr. Moffitt’s filing for divorce. Mr. Moffitt called the
accusations “hearsay,” and a university spokesman said the matter was a
“domestic issue.” If it is found that Mr. Moffitt committed academic fraud, the
newspaper reported, the university could be subject to an NCAA investigation.
"Linebacker's Wife Says She Wrote His Papers," Chronicle
of Higher Education News
Blog, January 5, 2008 --- http://chronicle.com/news/article/3707/linebackers-wife-says-she-wrote-his-papers?at
Bob Jensen's threads on plagiarism and cheating ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm
Apple reportedly disabled the stolen iPhones, which likely makes them
worthless to the thieves and anyone who buys them ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-products-stolen-australia-apple-store-bricked-2019-9
Jensen Comment
It's a little like an exploding dye pack in a bag full of bank loot.
Do the Rich Get Richer in the Stock Market? Evidence from India ---
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/campbell/files/dotherichgetricher_31july2018_01.pdf
We have studied wealth held in equity accounts in India, a large developing country that is important for the evolution of global wealth inequality. We have shown that heterogeneous risky log investment returns have important e⁄ects on the cross-sectional distribution of account size: large accounts result not only from large contributions, but also from high log returns. The e⁄ect of log return heterogeneity accounts for 84% of the increase in the cross-sectional variance of log account size during our sample period from March 2002 to May 2011. Return heterogeneity increases the inequality of account size through two main channels, both of which are related to the prevalence of undiversied accounts that own relatively few stocks. The rst is that some undiversied portfolios randomly do well, while others do poorly. The second is that larger accounts tend to earn higher average log returns. They do so not by earning higher average simple returns, but by limiting uncompensated idiosyncratic risk which lowers the average log return for any given average simple return.
Our paper partially supports Pikettys (2014) concern that the rich get richer by earning high investment returnssubject to the distinction, central in nance theory, between simple and log returns. Our results also highlight the importance for developing countries of investment vehicles, such as mutual funds and exchange traded funds, that are already common in developed countries and that give small investors an a⁄ordable way to diversify r
Jensen Comment
I might speculate that India has less effective regulation for enforcing stock
market efficiencies ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
Ten fast-food chains with the most locations in America ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/10-fast-food-chains-with-the-most-locations-in-america-2019-6
There are more Subway locations in America than McDonald's and Burger Kings
combined.
01 Subway
02 Starbucks
03 McDonalds
04 Dunlin'
05 7-Eleven
06 Pizza Hut
07 Burger King
08 Taco Bell
09 Domino's
10 Circle K
Beyond Meat gets slapped with a rare 'sell' rating after a Wall Street
firm says it's not worthy of its 'tech valuation' ---
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/beyond-meat-stock-price-dips-second-wall-street-sell-rating-2019-9-1028505770
Jensen Comment
I brought two Impossible Whoppers home for the first time. Erika took two bites, made a face, and gave the rest of her IW to me. I like the IW as much as I like Burger King;s Beef Whopper, although both are tasteless without mustard. Neither compares with the hamburgers available daily in our local hospital. The worst fast food items in the world are Burger King's new tacos (that are deep fat fried yuk).
KFC is by far the most popular fast food chain in China and it's nothing
like the US brand — here's what it's like
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-popular-fast-food-chain-in-china-kfc-photos-2018-4
Why Jim Borden Loves Linked In ---
https://jborden.com/2019/09/05/why-i-love-linkedin/
Black College Enrollment Is Down 13% Since 2010 ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2019/09/black-college-enrollment-is-down-13-since-2010.html
The largest drop took place before Trump became President. African-American
enrollments in public universities grew at the same time, but at a slightly
lower poace than the drop in black college enrollments.
The Eyes Have It: How googly eyes solved one of today’s trickiest UX
problems (for robots at least) ---
https://www.fastcompany.com/90395110/how-googly-eyes-solved-one-of-todays-trickiest-ux-problems
New Jersey’s Dream Mall Turns Into a Nightmare ----
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-03/n-j-s-dream-mall-40-million-people-and-a-traffic-nightmare?cmpid=BBD090319_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=190903&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
Jensen Comment
Planners left out a crucial detail --- how to get there!
Sort of reminds me of decades ago when the University of Michigan built an enormous stadium without nearly enough bathrooms. Some fans discovered the misery of wet diapers in freezing weather.
From David Giles on September 1, 2019
Back to School Reading in Econometrics ---
https://davegiles.blogspot.com/2019/09/back-to-school-reading.htmlHere we are - it's Labo(u)r Day weekend already in North America, and we all know what that means! It's back to school time.
You'll need a reading list, so here are some suggestions:
· Frances, Ph. H. B. F., 2019. Professional forecasters and January. Econometric Institute Research Papers EI2019-25, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
· Harvey, A. & R. Ito, 2019. Modeling time series when some observations are zero. Journal of Econometrics, in press.
· Leamer, E. E., 1978. Specification Searches: Ad Hoc Inference With Nonexperimental Data. Wiley, New York. (This is a legitimate free download.)
· MacKinnon, J. G., 2019. How cluster-robust inference is changing applied econometrics. Working Paper 1413, Economics Department, Queen's University.
· Steel, M. F. J., 2019. Model averaging and its use in economics. Mimeo., Department of Statistics, University of Warwick.
· Stigler, S. M., 1981. Gauss and the invention of least squares. Annals of Statistics, 9, 465-474.
The Guardian: Facebook has launched its new dating service in the
US. Sounds safe, right?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/05/facebook-launches-dating-app-is-it-safe-privacy-issues?utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=76525038&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9wgCHrc2MrsMT8QITQqD6Q7_7O6rZ8OuE_oKqJcWPaUeyGuxfALQXbuu5GW1rDPWo6-c5cDrlPXf1bdZ8tjbj5Y3Yfsw&_hsmi=76525038
Avoiding Scam Artists at Home and Abroad ---
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/avoiding-scam-artists-at-home-and-abroad
Don’t Fall for the Suspended Social Security Number Scam ---
https://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/social-security/articles/dont-fall-for-the-suspended-social-security-number-scam
Current and past editions of my blog called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
CityLab: The Commuting Principle that Shaped Urban History ---
www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/commute-time-city-size-transportation-urban-planning-history/597055
Bob Jensen's threads on transportation ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Transportation
Blockchain --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
Learning From Silicon Valley About Blockchain Adoption
---
https://readwrite.com/2019/09/06/learning-from-silicon-valley-about-blockchain-adoption/
Are
self-service libraries a threat to the profession or an opportunity to better
serve patrons? ---
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/09/03/automatic-people-self-service-libraries/
Steps toward closing the gender pay gap ---
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2019/sep/gender-pay-gap-cpa-firms.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=09Sep2019
When Corporations Changed Their Social Role—and Upended Our
Politics
By Nicholas Lemann
The Wall Street Journal
September 6, 2019
https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-corporations-changed-their-social-roleand-upended-our-politics-11567782178?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1
Presidential elections in the U.S. are traditionally about economics. Next year’s vote, and others around the world, have the feeling, however, of being not just about how the economy is performing in the moment but about something more fundamental: the economic system. What drove the rise of Donald Trump and politicians like him elsewhere was the promise that a new government with new policies could restore a fondly remembered (by some) economic and social order from the past. Those politicians’ opponents on the left have a similar interest, though with completely different specifics, in remaking the political economy. It seems like centuries ago, though it was actually only four or five election cycles, when immediate economic conditions were a political issue but not the basic design of the economy.
What brought about this dramatic shift? To understand that, it’s necessary first to recall what the American economic order used to be and what made it come apart.
A good place to begin is at Bennington College in Vermont during the worst years of World War II. Two émigré Viennese intellectuals, Peter Drucker and Karl Polanyi, had holed up there to teach. Drucker, who went on to become probably the world’s most famous management consultant, was then in his early 30s, orderly and ambitious; Polanyi, more than a decade older, was messy and voluble and considerably to the left of Drucker politically. Each of them was working on a book proposing a large social vision for the second half of the 20th century.
Through the long Vermont winters, Drucker and Polanyi would trudge between each other’s houses in the snow so they could argue about their books. Polanyi’s “The Great Transformation” treated the rise of unimpeded modern capitalism as a vast, long-running social disaster. “At the heart of the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century,” he wrote, “there was an almost miraculous improvement in the tools of production, which was accompanied by a catastrophic dislocation of the lives of the common people.” The only possible lasting solution to the problem of capitalism, he believed, was for government to make itself such a forceful presence that the economy would be made the servant of society instead of society being the servant of the economy.
Drucker’s book was called “The Future of Industrial Man: A Conservative Approach.” The subtitle was apt. He saw the end product of the Industrial Revolution as the modern corporation, which was an institution he very much admired. Drucker thought government control of the economy would lead to “centralized bureaucratic despotism.” Instead, the corporation, on its own rather than under the government’s direction, must invent something heretofore unknown: “a functioning industrial society.”
Not long after “The Future of Industrial Man” was published, Drucker was surprised to get a call from an executive at General Motors —at that point, the ne plus ultra of corporations. How would he like to come to Detroit for a couple of years and find out how GM actually worked? Drucker eagerly accepted the offer, and in 1946 he published a book about what he had found, called “Concept of the Corporation.” There he reprised his theory in much more florid terms. “The large industrial unit has become our representative social actuality,” he declared, “and its social organization, the large corporation in this country, is our representative social institution.”
During his research, Drucker became friendly with GM’s president, Charles E. Wilson. (He’s the man remembered for saying, “For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa.”) The two of them, according to Drucker, had conversations about GM’s social role that helped nudge Wilson toward negotiating, in 1950, the Treaty of Detroit, a five-year contract with the United Auto Workers that established annual raises, company-provided health insurance and pensions, and a measure of job security for workers as norms of American corporate life.
It was during this period that President Harry Truman was failing to achieve most of his Fair Deal, a proposed ramping up of the welfare state that included a prototype version of what liberal politicians would now call “Medicare for all.” That failure left government playing a role inconsistent with Karl Polanyi’s ideas and the corporation playing a role consistent with Drucker’s. Corporate employment was an American exceptionalist version of the welfare state.
It is stating the obvious to point out that this system no longer exists. One often hears calls for big corporations to be socially responsible—last month, the Business Roundtable added its voice in a statement signed by 181 corporate chief executives—but not for them to serve collectively as the major American social (rather than economic) institution. For a quarter-century or so during the mid-20th century, however, this was lived reality for millions of Americans who dutifully served the corporations where they worked until they retired at 65 on generous defined-benefit pensions, suppressing whatever independent or entrepreneurial impulses they may have had in exchange for the company’s loyalty to them. And a coterie of establishment-oriented liberal intellectuals trumpeted the arrangement as a not-half-bad social and political order, since a Western European welfare state seemed unachievable in the U.S.
So what happened? Besides being vulnerable because it was a product more of custom than of law, the corporation-based welfare state, in retrospect, had two major weaknesses. It mainly excluded large groups with rising aspirations, like racial and ethnic minorities and women, so they felt little stake in preserving the system. Even more consequentially, it depended on the corporation’s economic invulnerability and the quiescence of its shareholders.
Continued in article
From a Chronicle of Higher Education Newsletter on September 7, 2019
Arizona State University Becomes a Role Model on How to Ignore Sustainability
Goals
Arizona State walked away from most of its sustainability goals.
Eight years ago, Arizona State University made big plans to go green. Today, those plans have largely been abandoned. How did that happen? Mick Dalrymple, director of the university’s sustainability practices, told The State Press that the goals outlined in the 2011 plan were not realistic. The plan described 266 steps the university needed to take to meet those goals, but the newspaper’s investigation found that Arizona State had taken only a few of them. The story is a compelling investigation of how a university can fail to meet its goals in spite of a detailed plan. \
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TeachRock: The Music that Shaped America ---
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September 2, 2019
· CDC Says 'Don't Vape' As Lung Injury Cases Rise
· Alex Trebek Back On 'Jeopardy!' After Chemotherapy
· FDA Warns of Problems for Some Taking Hep C Drugs
September 3, 2019
· CDC Says 'Don't Vape' As Lung Injury Cases Rise
· Alex Trebek Back On 'Jeopardy!' After Chemotherapy
· FDA Warns of Problems for Some Taking Hep C Drugs
September 4, 2019
· 'Rhoda' Star Valerie Harper Dies
· Cancer Tops Heart Disease as Killer of Middle-Aged
· Weight-Loss Surgery Drops Heart Disease, Death Risk for Diabetics
· Could Red Wine Boost Your 'Microbiome'?
· CDC Says 'Don't Vape' As Lung Injury Cases Rise
September 5, 2019
· Second U.S. Death in Spate of Vaping Illnesses
· Airlines Seek to Serve Hearing-Impaired Passengers
· 'Rhoda' Star Valerie Harper Dies
September 5, 2019
· Over 1,000 Cases of Salmonella from Live Poultry
· Second U.S. Death in Spate of Vaping Illnesses
· Statins May Lower Death Risk From Artery Disease
September 7, 2019
· Death Toll Rises as Vaping Cases Skyrocket
· Marijuana Use Among College Students Rising Fast
· Getting Married Might Lower Your Odds for Dementia
September 9, 2019
· Death Toll Rises as Vaping Cases Skyrocket
· Marijuana Use Among College Students Rising Fast
· Getting Married Might Lower Your Odds for Dementia
September 10, 2019
· Occasional Naps Do a Heart Good, Swiss Study Finds
· Doctors Warn of Consequences as Measles Cases Rise
· Kroger Yellowfin Tuna Steaks Linked to Poisoning
September 11, 2019
· Occasional Naps Do a Heart Good, Swiss Study Finds
· Doctors Warn of Consequences as Measles Cases Rise
· Kroger Yellowfin Tuna Steaks Linked to Poisoning
David Byrne Launches Reasons to Be Cheerful, an Online Magazine Featuring
Articles by Byrne, Brian Eno & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/david-byrne-launches-reasons-to-be-cheerful-an-online-magazine.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Humor for September 2019
There’s
a joke going around: “My wife asked me why I was speaking so softly at home. I
told her I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg1 was listening. She laughed. I laughed.
Alexa laughed. Siri laughed.”
Eric Cohen
The funniest coach in college football ---
https://twitter.com/NickPetraccione/status/1170204223197388802
Humor August 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q3.htm#Humor0819.htm
Humor July 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q3.htm#Humor0719.htm
Humor June 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q2.htm#Humor0619.htm
Humor May 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q2.htm#Humor0519.htm
Humor April 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q2.htm#Humor0419.htm
Humor March 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0319.htm
Humor February 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0219.htm
Humor January 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0119.htm
Humor December 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q4.htm#Humor1218.htm
Humor November 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q4.htm#Humor1118.htm
Humor October 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q4.htm#Humor1118.htm
Humor October 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q4.htm#Humor1018.htm
Humor September 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q3.htm#Humor0918.htm
Humor August 2018 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q3.htm#Humor0818.htm
Humor July 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q3.htm#Humor0718.htm
Humor June 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q2.htm#Humor0618.htm
Humor May 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q2.htm#Humor0518.htm
Humor April 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q2.htm#Humor0418.htm
Humor March 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q1.htm#Humor0318.htm
Humor February 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q1.htm#Humor0218.htm
Humor January 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q1.htm#Humor0118.htm
Tidbits Archives --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter ---
Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron"
enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and
other universities is at
http://www.searchedu.com/
Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
The Cult of Statistical Significance:
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral
Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and
Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the
vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
World Clock ---
http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock
and Calendar
---
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones ---
http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) ---
http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
Also see
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
Facts about population growth (video) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth ---
http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq ---
http://www.costofwar.com/
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons ---
http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.
Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
CPA Examination ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle ---
http://cpareviewforfree.com/
Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at http://iaed.wordpress.com/
Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social
Networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Online Books, Poems, References,
and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
rjensen@trinity.edu